Governs the 28 provinces of the Sun and administers solar interests: he prolongs life to six hundred years with perfect health, gives great wisdom and excellent familiar spirits, composes perfect medicines, converts any substance into the purest metal or into precious stones, bestows gold.
Source: Arbatel de Magia Veterum (Basel, 1575); English in Turner (1655), which is why the spirits are often filed under Agrippa although the Arbatel is not his. Disputed: the claim that the bearer is worshipped as a god by kings is Waite's rendering of a Latin clause whose sense is disputed, and the common reading of it as a promise of fame goes beyond anything the text states; the name Och is barely more than a syllable and no etymology is agreed; and the identification with the Sun's intelligence of Agrippa's table is a modern conflation. Element is the Sun's element in this corpus, not an Arbatel doctrine.
Correspondences
- Planet
- Sun
- Element
- Fire
- Chakra
- Solar Plexus Chakra
- Color
- Gold
Sacred timing
- Day
- Sunday
- Hour
- Sun
Practice
- Magical Uses
- HealthLongevityWisdomWealthGold magicMedicineFameFamiliar spirits
Nature and meaning
- Office
Governs the 28 provinces of the Sun and administers solar interests: he prolongs life to six hundred years with perfect health, gives great wisdom and excellent familiar spirits, composes perfect medicines, converts any substance into the purest metal or into precious stones, bestows gold, and causes the bearer of his character to be honoured as a god by the kings of the whole world.
Details
- Order
- 4
- Metal
- Gold
- Stone
- Diamond
- Herb
- Frankincense
- Sigil
His character: an abstract glyph rather than a figure, printed in the Arbatel and assigned to gold, the metal of the Sun. The 1575 woodcut is the reference form; later redrawings differ in the strokes and in how much of the plate they reproduce.
- Keywords
- SunGoldHealthWisdomFameMedicineKingship
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